On the Average Steiner Distance of Graphs with Prescribed Properties

The average n-distance of a connected graph G, p,,(G), is the average of the Steiner distances of all n-sets of vertices of G. In this paper, we give bounds on pn for two-connected graphs and for k-chromatic graphs. Moreover, we show that pn(G) does not depend on the n-diameter of G. Let G = (V. E) be a connected graph of order p. The average distance of G, p(G), is defined to be the average of all distances between pairs of vertices in G, i.e.